The Press: The Fall-Out

After four months of tireless investigation, the law last week finally
pointed its finger at the acid thrower who blinded Labor Columnist
Victor Riesel (TIME. April 16). The assailant, a 22-year-old hoodlum
named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already
come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder
triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to
labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this
outline of the crime:

When the New York Daily Mirror's syndicated labor expert left a radio
broadcast in Manhattan late one...